Jonah….
‘Yonah

1:1Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the
son of Amittai, saying, 1:2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great
city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before
me."

1:3But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to
Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he
paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish
from the presence of Yahweh. 1:4But
Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on
the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up. 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and
cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into
the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of
the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep. 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and
said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe
the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."

1:7They all said to each other, "Come,
let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause
this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 1:8Then they asked
him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your
occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are
you?"

1:9He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and
I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry
land."

1:10Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and
said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew
that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them. 1:11Then said they
to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?"
For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 1:12He said to them, "Take me up,
and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that
because of me this great tempest is on you."

1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get
them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more
tempestuous against them. 1:14Therefore
they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us
not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you,
Yahweh, have done as it pleased you." 1:15So they took up Jonah, and threw him
into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging. 1:16Then the men feared Yahweh
exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

1:17Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow
up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

2:1Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out
of the fish's belly. 2:2He
said,

2:6I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains.
The earth barred me in forever:
Yet have you brought up my life from the
pit, Yahweh my God.

2:7"When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered Yahweh.
My prayer came in to you, into your holy
temple.

2:8Those who regard lying vanities
forsake their own mercy.2:9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of
thanksgiving.
I will pay that which I have vowed.

Salvation belongs to
Yahweh."

2:10Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited
out Jonah on the dry land.

3:1The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the
second time, saying, 3:2"Arise,
go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give
you."

3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh,
according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,
three days' journey across. 3:4Jonah
began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said,
"Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

3:5The people of Nineveh believed God; and
they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even
to the least of them. 3:6The
news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off
his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 3:7He made a
proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his
nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything;
let them not feed, nor drink water; 3:8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man
and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone
from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn
and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not
perish?"

3:10God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which
he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.

4:1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and
he was angry. 4:2He
prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said
when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of
the evil. 4:3Therefore
now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die
than to live."

4:5Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat
on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under
it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. 4:6Yahweh God
prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade
over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly
glad because of the vine. 4:7But
God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that
it withered. 4:8It
happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the
sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that
he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

4:9God said to Jonah, "Is it right for
you to be angry about the vine?"

He said, "I am right to be
angry, even to death."

4:10Yahweh said, "You have been
concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow;
which came up in a night, and perished in a night. 4:11Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh,
that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons
who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?"